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DeltaNerd t1_j8nlng2 wrote

Reply to comment by Unfamiliar_Word in Do you want a Roosevelt Blvd Subway? Tell the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission ASAP! by markskull

Why are people voting for KOP rail?

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NoREEEEEEtilBrooklyn t1_j8nn8kg wrote

Simple: the vast majority of funding for Septa comes from the burbs and that is a project that is burb centric.

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NapTimeFapTime t1_j8o4jvb wrote

I live near KOP and I absolutely do not understand it. KOP is the least walkable suburb of Philly by a LARGE margin. Sidewalks dead end, there’s 6 lane highways with no crosswalks, everything is really spread out, truly terrible. Adding public transit doesn’t really seem to make a bunch of sense, unless people will be parking and riding into the city.

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ntr89 t1_j8o67mk wrote

Stroads everywhere

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NapTimeFapTime t1_j8o6t3m wrote

It’s the stroadiest. I’m very pro-rail project, but they are going to have to unwind like 75+ years of car-centric/car-only/car-first infrastructure in KOP to make it a place that I would want to take public transit to.

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Unfamiliar_Word t1_j8oa85e wrote

It's unspeakably frustrating that SEPTA is exerting so much effort to build a transit line through places that are among the least amenable in the area to transit and that is likely to be very resistant to ever changing to accommodate it.

I've also gotten the impression that the malls, critical ridership draws, are not very enthusiastic about the project. I'm pretty sure that Lower Merion Township doesn't want it either. I don't really know who is pushing this project so hard, but whoever it is are a bunch of fools and real jerks too.

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NapTimeFapTime t1_j8obsqr wrote

I think the mall and lower Merion doesn’t want the rail project because they don’t want city folk to come to the mall.

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AbsentEmpire t1_j8t99e6 wrote

Nobody tell them about where the workforce to run the mall is coming from.

Thier heads might explode if they learn a substantial number of 202 corridor office workers also come from the city.

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Glystopher t1_j8ockgx wrote

There’s jobs in KOP, that aren’t in the city

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adwvn t1_j8twifx wrote

What kind of jobs?

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Glystopher t1_j8u6mow wrote

Mostly IT and tech stuff, pharma too, maybe even IT for pharma.

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AbsentEmpire t1_j8t8vqc wrote

Because it's going to make getting to one of biggest job hubs in the region a lot easier.

It's never ceases to amaze me how users here conveniently keep forgetting that 40% of Philadelphians have to reverse commute out of the city for thier job.

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DeltaNerd t1_j8t9gy0 wrote

Well the current alignment drops you nowhere close to LM and there are no sidewalks in KOP in the industry district where they plan to terminate the line. I do believe we need the KOP line but this alignment ain't good.

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pretentiousmusician t1_j8nusea wrote

Idk but it got the least votes by far

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DeltaNerd t1_j8oxmzu wrote

Bus revolution deserves more love

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AbsentEmpire t1_j8t9m6b wrote

Well city council is positioning themselves to block or otherwise hinder it as much as they can, so that's not going well.

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